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Hockey Terminology | G - H - I

G

Get the jump

To move fast and thereby get a good start on the opponents.

Goal

Provides one point; scored when a puck goes between the goalposts from the stick of an attacking player and entirely crosses the red line between the goalposts; also the informal term used to refer to the area made of the goalposts and the net guarded by the goalie and into which a puck must enter to score a point..

Goal cage

A 6 foot wide by 4 foot high tubular steel frame consisting of a cross bar and two goalposts to which a net is attached.

Goal crease

A semi-circular area with a 6 foot radius in front of the opening of the goal; denotes the playing area of the goaltender within which attacking players must not obstruct his movement or vision.

Goal line

The two-inch red line between the goalposts that stretches in both directions to the sideboards

Goalkeeper, goalie or goaltender

The heavily padded player who guards the goal; prevents opponents from scoring by stopping the puck any way he can.

Goalposts

The metal bars that frame the area to which the net is attached which rests on the center of the goal line and between which a puck must pass to score a goal.

H

Hat trick

Three or more goals scored by a player in one game.

Head deke

When a player drops his head as though moving one way and quickly moves in another to fake out the opponent.

High-sticking

A minor penalty which occurs when a player carries his stick above the normal height of his opponent's shoulders and hits or menaces the opponent with it; if injury is caused it becomes a major penalty; if a referee determines that the raising of the stick was unintentional and no contact occurred, it is considered a team infraction, and a face-off is held in the offender's defensive zone.

Holding

A minor penalty which occurs when a player grabs and holds onto an opponent (or his stick) with his hands or arms to impede the opponent's progress.

Holding the puck

See falling on the puck.

Home team

The team in whose arena the game is being played; the team wearing the lighter uniforms.

Hook check

A sweep of the stick low to the ice to take the puck from an opponent's stick.

Hooking

A minor penalty which occurs when a player attempts to impede the progress of another player by hooking any part of the opponent's body with the blade of his stick; an illegal use of one's stick.

I

Icing

A violation which occurs when the team in possession of the puck shoots it from behind the red center line across the opponent's goal line into the end of the rink (but not into the goal) and a member of the opposing team touches it first; results in a face-off in the offender's defensive zone; a shorthanded team cannot be called for icing.

Interference

A penalty in hockey called when a player attempts to impede the motion of another player not in possession of the puck.

Intermission

A fifteen-minute recess between each of the three periods of a hockey game.